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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 5019
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Oregon Department of
AdministrativeServices)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).
Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Re-
ceipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the Oregon Liquor and
CannabisCommission.
Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the financial administration of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission; and de-
claring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but ex-
cluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the Oregon Liquor and
Cannabis Commission, for the following purposes:
(1)Distilled spirits, public
safety, administration and
agency support..........................$153,326,514
(2)Marijuana regulation
- recreational............................$34,511,032
(3)Marijuana regulation
- medical...................................$7,089,668
(4)Agents’ compensation
- all other..................................$175,648,785
(5)Agents’ compensation
- distillery agents......................$10,947,086
(6)Capital improvements...............$ 258,159
(7)Debt service..............................$29,163,929
SECTION 2. For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, expenditures by the Oregon Liquor
and Cannabis Commission for liquor purchases are not limited.
SECTION 3.This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
July 1, 2025.
Note: For budget, see 2025-2027 Biennial Budget
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 9019